Tradition 34 of 35
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Mythic systems, traditional folklore, sacred and supernatural legends, fairy tales, and documented folk beliefs that preserve or contextualize magical, spiritual, anomalous, and otherworldly traditions.
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- Books
- 20,091
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 72%
- 14,383 with public full text
- With covers
- 72%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match17,236
- Metadata match585
- Query match2,265
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Folklore3.6K
- Legends2.1K
- Fairy tales1.8K
- Tales1.5K
- Fiction1.4K
- History1.1K
- Mythology840
- Early works to 1800760
- Poetry694
- Juvenile fiction684
- Translations into English635
- Social life and customs617
- History and criticism530
- Drama509
- Juvenile literature491
- Religion485
- Greek Mythology475
- Superstition473
- Classical Mythology437
- Short Stories350
- Indians of North America341
- Children's stories334
- Horror tales293
- Biography292
Top languages
- English8,343 · 42%
- German4,162 · 21%
- French1,648 · 8%
- Latin836 · 4%
- NOT738 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- ca. v6. Jh Aesopus135 books
- Hans Christian Andersen102 in this tradition103 books
- Andrew Lang70 in this tradition83 books
- Charles Perrault66 in this tradition76 books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne64 in this tradition74 books
- ca. 1. Jh Phaedrus58 books
- Euripides56 in this tradition59 books
- Jacob Grimm55 books
- Benjamin Blake52 books
- Edgar Allan Poe51 in this tradition63 books
- Jean de La Fontaine50 in this tradition56 books
- Wilhelm Grimm50 in this tradition53 books
20,091 books
The language, mythology, and geographical nomenclature of Japan viewed in the light of Aino studies
Basil Hall Chamberlain
1887
The legend of Shakespeare's crab tree
Charles Frederick Green
1857
The legendary lore of the lower Saint Lawrence
J. M. Le Moine
1862
The legends of Saint Patrick
Aubrey De Vere
1884
The life and death of Hector
Thomas Heywood
1614
The life of the holie father S. Francis Writen by Saint Bonauenture, and as it is related by the Reuerend Father Aloysius Lipomanus Bishop of Veron. In his fourth tome of the life of Saintes
Cardinal Bonaventure
1610
The life of the most holy father S. Francis Wrtiten [sic], and in one booke compiled, by that famous and learned man S. Bonauenture a freer minor, Cardinall of the holy Roman Church Bishop of Alba, and the Seraphicall Doctor of the Church. Now lately translated into our English tongue
Cardinal Bonaventure
1635
The little lame prince ; and, Adventures of a brownie
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1890
The lovers' leap
T. A. Johnson
1858
The loves of Medea and Jason
Apollonius Rhodius
1771
The lyf of Adam
Jacobus de Voragine
1504
The magic of kindness, or, The wondrous story of the good Huan
Henry Mayhew
1869
The merry tales of the mad men of Gottam
Andrew Boorde
1866
The miraculous Host tortured by the Jew, under the reign of Philip the Fair in 1290
Leon de Saint-Jean pere, George Cruikshank, William Hone, Douglas Loveday, J. M'Creery
1822
The mirror, or, Fairy world displayed
William Lane
1788
The mistletoe and its philosophy
Peter Davidson
1892
The monk of the grotto, or, Eugenio & Virginia
Pigault-Lebrun
1800
The monsters of the deep
Armand Landrin
1876
The mystery of the white snake
Samuel I. Woodbridge
1896Chinese
The mythology of secret societies
J. M Roberts
1974
The mythology of the pagan world
Robert Mayo
1819
The mythology of the secret societies
J. M Roberts
1972
The names of the gods in the Kiche myths, Central America
Daniel Garrison Brinton
1881
The national legend of the Chahta-Muskokee tribes
Daniel G. Brinton
1870